If you want to become a great business manager, you must focus on ways to motivate your employees. The best businesses thrive because the employees want to be there, receive a great deal of validation from their work, and enjoy the environment. All of these things fall under the umbrella of employee motivation. How can you motivate your employees? Let’s take a look at five excellent techniques.

1. Be sure to create just the minimum number of policies and rules necessary for basic functionality and legality. Employees must not feel stifled.
2. Ensure that all rules and policies are publicly published so as to prevent misunderstandings.
3. Identify values for your organization, involving employees in the process. Also get them together to write statements of professional conduct that they can all agree upon.
4. Ensure that supervisors know these guidelines and understand fair hiring practices
5. When individual problems emerge, address them on a one-to-one basis with appropriate counseling and performance improvement plans.